Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:51:37 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Hunter Peress <hfastjava@yahoo.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BitTorrent Mirror of 5.0 Message-ID: <20030124025137.GA61607@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030123202001.51397.qmail@web41306.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030123195701.GH60077@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030123202001.51397.qmail@web41306.mail.yahoo.com>
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--NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:20:01PM -0800, Hunter Peress wrote: > > Steps to getting the community to use this: > >=20 > > 1) Make a working port. I tried to port bittorrent once, but > > something (don't remember what) failed to compile. > BT is in python and hence requires no compilation. MAYBE you are talking = about > wxpython, which requires wxwindows and that might be where your error was. I don't recall, other than that I was following the included build instructions. > > 2) Post to FreeBSD lists to announce your BT mirror when releases are > > made. Mention why people might want to try it this way instead of > > using ftp which they already understand and love. >=20 > That IS exactly what I did, that is exactly why you are responding to me = right now. > This current email that I am writing is part of a thread that was started= for this > exact purpose. You omitted step 1, which is needed before you'll get any significant community buy-in (only the most dedicated people are going to manually download and build it on their own). Also, -chat is not really the best list for this..for example, it would be on-topic for -stable or -current and you'd reach your target audience there. Kris --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+MKo4Wry0BWjoQKURAvzLAJ9bYGy1GVNNQ7B/t888BTalNRAlmACg5adB jUwuichA3UBNNA0RIi+GU9k= =eAk+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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